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Bhatia Family Foundation at a glance

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Bhatia Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Bhatia Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bhatia Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
10
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11
’19
14
’20
17
’21
13
’22
15
’23
16
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$453kHealth$66kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$9kEducation$7kReligion$7kHousing & Shelter$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,500
HINDU TEMPLE$1,000
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
SHELTER ASSOC OF WASHTENAW$1,000
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES$500
CHILDRENS HUNGER RELIEF FUND$500
UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$500
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$500
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$500
BOYS TOWN$500
GRACE GIRLS HOME$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA: $1k → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 22 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$69k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+64%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +392%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +145%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TH
    TRINITY HEALTH ANN ARBOR HOSP
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • FG
    FATHER GABRIEL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue ×45
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Paralyzed Veterans of America

Paralyzed veterans of america (pva) was founded by a group of world war ii veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders in 1947. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
11
American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $451,515 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTRINITY HEALTH ANN ARBOR HOSP: $40,000 · OtherTRINITY HEALT…HINDU TEMPLE: $6,500 · OtherHINDU TEMPLEAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANC…SALVATION ARMY: $4,300 · OtherSALVATION ARM…YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $2,450 · Other+18 more: $8,450 · Other+18 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,500 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $3,500 · HealthAmerican College of Cardiology: $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,773 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,500 · Human ServicesSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,350 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,125 · EducationVEAHAVTA: $2,500 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,100 · InternationalPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $700 · InternationalSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $3,757 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$452,515Other$67,200Health$19,473Human Services$11,450Education$6,125International$5,300Housing & Shelter$3,757

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $451,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $3,757 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Cardiology: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,773 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVEAHAVTA: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $2,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Duffy FoundationHarry a and Margaret …Ann Arbor Area Commun…Comerica Charitable F…DTE Energy FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Raymond James Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Duffy FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duffy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bhatia Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bhatia Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bhatia Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bhatia Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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